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1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Community \Com*mu"ni*ty\, n.; pl {Communities}. [L. communitas: cf OF communit['e]. Cf {Commonalty}, and see {Common}.] 1. Common possession or enjoyment; participation; as a community of goods. The original community of all things --Locke. An unreserved community of thought and feeling. --W. Irving. 2. A body of people having common rights, privileges, or interests, or living in the same place under the same laws and regulations; as a community of monks. Hence a number of animals living in a common home or with some apparent association of interests. Creatures that in communities exist. --Wordsworth. 3. Society at large a commonwealth or state; a body politic; the public, or people in general. Burdens upon the poorer classes of the community. --Hallam. Note: In this sense the term should be used with the definite article; as the interests of the community. 4. Common character; likeness. [R.] The essential community of nature between organic growth and inorganic growth. --H. Spencer. 5. Commonness; frequency. [Obs.] Eyes . . . sick and blunted with community. --Shak.
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